It seems that Netflix’s new user location system, with which the company intended to locate each device connected to a user account in order to determine if it is a shared account or not, it’s working pretty bad Well, as we can read in gizmodo, There are a few users who see how their location is wrong.
However, it is not that the location is wrong from one city to another or to different parts of it, but the location changes can be several hundred km, possibly due to the use of IP addresses as a method to locate users.
This would make sense in the case of those users who have a dynamic IP that changes from time to time., something that would make the location of the user perceived by Netflix to be simply random. Similarly, if it’s the external IP that counts, CG-NAT configurations could cause additional problems.
We will have to see what Netflix does about it, because if they cannot access more information than that, they will have to give up their attempts to track down users to determine if an account is shared or not, and go back to the old system.
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Jordi Bercial
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